KARACHI, Nov 18: An anti-terrorism court indicted on Friday five workers of the banned Laskhar-i-Jhangvi for killing a constable and an under trial prisoner during an attack on a prisoners’ van.

Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5 put off the hearing till Nov 22 and ordered special public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum to produce prosecution witnesses on the next date.

Mohammed Faisal alias Faisal Pehalwan, Waseem Sabir, Mazhar Hussain, Mohammed Tassaduq and Muzammil Hussain were charged with attacking the prisoners’s van on Feb 28, 2002 near Bohra Pir in the Nabi Bux police limits.

According to the prosecution, the LJ men opened fire on the van which was carrying some under-trial sectarian workers to the Central Prison after producing them in the city courts. Police constable Mohammed Shakil and an under trial prisoner, Saqib son of Meher Din, were killed in the attack. A dozen other UTPs were also injured in the incident.

The five accused denied the charges against them and pleaded “not guilty”.